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I’m an American in that third group, theoretically quite comfortable, as a software developer with a six figure salary living in the Midwest.

I have no rebuttal. What you wrote is scarily accurate.

This.

My units and integration tests are for the things I thought of, and more importantly, don’t want to accidentally break in the future. I will be monumentally stupid a year from now and try to destroy something because I forgot it existed.

Testers get in there and play, be creative, be evil, and they discuss what they find. Is this a problem? Do we want to get out in front of it before the customer finds it? They aren’t the red team, they aren’t the enemy. We sharpen each other. And we need each other.

Love this, 100% accurate. QA people are amazing, protect us from ourselves in so many ways we didn’t even think of.

Yeah same, I make noise to be less “I’m being sneaky” because I’m not trying to be. It never occurred to me this could be taken as “I’m trying to start a conversation, while not being in your field of view at all and also not saying any words.” I don’t do this when walking with my wife.

That’s right. Even if you have to use a windows app that Linux compatibility layers don’t support, you can banish Windows 11 to a virtual machine.

Oh, weird, even in a virtual machine it wants an account. Anyone know where I can find a bypass method? :-)

Look instead for the reported causes. The effect “is sundown town or not” might be difficult to conclusively prove or disprove. The causes are sometimes documented though.

Unfortunately true. It’s disturbing to see the non-policy-related causes from that page:

Police discrimination (a crime)

Vandalism (a crime)

Discriminatory housing practices (currently a crime)

Gentrification (a market effect)

Supplemented with actual policy change. They don’t need the help.

In this age of ubiquitous phone cameras and instant social judgement, I look forward to the backlash as racists reveal themselves.

What’s the civic process for replacing senators and representatives who fail to impeach him?

(Please stop saying Luigi. We need to talk about actual civic processes that can work, instead of criminal fantasies.)

Wait, so what are they doing that they want us not paying attention to? You don’t burn a controversy like this unless you really want peoples’ eyes off of something big.

Sir, Israel is at 31 degrees N latitude. You were mentioning the southern hemisphere?

As an American, I’ve only ever thought good things about our ties with Europe. I haven’t been paying attention to the southern half of the globe much, and I’d like to hear more about how that scary outcome could help things there. Apologies for my …well, American-ness.

Can you still just print and mail a 1040?

2024 was my first year married, and my wife tells me I will be filing this year.